Use and Care Manual

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Using Your Drive on Windows

with Thunderbolt™

DRIVE

6. Click the Erase button. A progress bar in the lower right corner of the window will

show the progress of the disk reformatting, and your drive will be formatted to its

full capacity as Fat32.

7. Quit the Disk Utility program. You are nished!

8. After reinitializing, the custom icon for the G-DRIVE mobile with Thunderbolt

will be erased. No icons are available for Fat32.

With this format, you will be able to read/write on Windows Vista, 7 and 8,

and on Mac OS machines with Thunderbolt port.

Limitations with Fat32

There are some limitations when using Fat32.

The ‘MS-DOS

File System’ cannot write les over 4 GB. If you are working with les

over 4 GB, you may want to choose a software option like MacDrive. MacDrive is

Windows software that enables you to mount Mac-formatted drives on your

Windows computer.

NOTE: You could format your drive on a Windows machine Fat32. However,

Windows currently limits Fat32 partitions to only 32GB in size.

WARNING: THIS NEXT STEP WILL ERASE ALL DATA ON YOUR DRIVE.